CASES

CASE1

Ignatiaamara

Case

Woman, 30 years old

This patient had paralysis of the face on the left side and I supervised the case.

A : You were here on Tuesday the 20th, with your son. I noticed that you had paralysis of your face on the left side.

P : Yes.

A : When did it start?

P : One day before I came here. In the course of the day it became worse. When I drank something I noticed that it ran out of my mouth. I didn't say anything, but when my husband came home at noon it was very clear to see.

A : And the next day you came here.

P : I made an appointment for my son for that day.

HP : On Monday morning I noticed that her mouth was wry. Normally I don't pay so much attention to this, but I'm rather sure it started that night.

P : During the night of the 18th to 19th. It didn't hurt.

A : Did your eye remain open?

P : Yes, on Tuesday.

A : What happened before?

P : Our boy couldn't breathe on Sunday.

A :On Sunday your son had shortness of breath.

HP : It was during the night of Sunday to Monday.

P : He never had such a thing before.

A : Your son had an attack of asthma during the night, Sunday to Monday, from the 18th to 19th.

P : Yes.

A : And during the same night you got this paralysis.

P : I noticed it on Monday morning.

A : So the next day. Your son had an asthma attack and you got this paralysis.

P : Yes.

A : The paralysis is on the left side.

With this remedy all the complaints are more on the left side.The cause is sudden mental emotion, sudden anxiety, a fright, and the complaints appear quickly afterwards.

With other remedies like Causticum, Plumbum, Mercurius, Argentum nitricum, Natrummuriaticum and so on the paralysis develops slowly; with this remedy the symptoms appear shortly after the causation.

A : You were very worried about your son's asthma attack.

P : Of course I was very anxious.

HP : Yes, she was very anxious.

A : It was as if the child was choking.

P : He himself was in a panic during the attack.

A : You really sympathized with him.

P : Yes.

HP : She always does.

A : And that's why you have these complaints. In the past you also experienced some things. Tell me.

P : My parents died.

A : When did they die?

P : They died in 1984, but I took care of them when they died. My mother was 80 years old and my father 84. Both died of cancer.

She took care of her father and mother and suppose that the paralysis appeared gradually without the fright as a causation, of what remedy would we think?

Audience: Of Cocculus.

A : Yes, Cocculus is indicated in paralysis of the face and she took care of her parents.

You see that Ignatia is not in the rubric:

FACE, Paralysis

It is only mentioned in the rubric under Extremities on page 1176:

EXTREMITIES, Paralysis, hysterical: ... Ign ...

EXTREMITIES, Paralysis, mental emotions, after: .... Ign ...

These patients will be cured in a certain place, where?

Audience: In Lourdes.

A : You took care of both parents.

P : Yes.

A : At their home?

P : Yes. I had washed my mother a quarter of an hour before she died, and my father died in my arms because he couldn't drink anymore.

A : And since then you have had problems.

P : Yes, I haven't done well since. One day it is a little better, and the next day it is worse again.

A : What kind of problems do you have?

P : Nervousness and hyperventilation ( DEEP BREATHING ).

A : What do you mean?

P : I became stiff all over as if I would faint immediately.

You find this rubric on page 90:

MIND, Unconsciousness, frequent spells

Here you see the remedy again. Don't forget that Ignatia really can fall unconscious and Ignatia is indicated in children with convulsions during dentition.

Because of the death of her mother she was already in a state of weakness and therefore she often had these hysterical fainting spells. The fright from her son's acute asthma attack was too much and she broke down.

HP : That was quite a long time ago, at least 1984. My parents also died. They lived with us for 7 years, and she also took care of them. A long time afterwards she still had pain in her back because of a pinched nerve and couldn't walk because she had been lifting our parents.

P : I have had many massages and have been in plaster and then I was hospitalized in X. I went there 27 times and then it was better.

A : The pain in your back was probably also an expression of being overburdened.

HP : She also had to take care of our child. At that time the child was very small. Always taking care of this little child and at the same time taking care of her parents, it was too much. The child was only two years old and couldn't stay alone.

Do you feel the mildness in this woman?

She takes care of her mother, of her child, is sympathetic and very mild.

P : The child also had to be taken care of. It was too much. I don't know whether it has anything to do with it, but this state lasted for years and years, and lately I wasn't doing very well either.

A : Then your mother died. Since when have you had the attacks of hyperventilation?

P : I think since then.

A : How did the attacks of hyperventilation develop?

P : First I felt bad, I was breathing faster and faster and became stiff.

A : Did you faint?

P : Yes.

There are many remedies for hyperventilation. If you look under "respiration accelerated" you find a lot of remedies.

A : It has been treated with all kinds of medicines, hasn't it?

P : No, I just had to breathe in a paper sack.

HP : When her mother died she was in a kind of panic and shock. At that time they called me at work. After she has been like dead for two hours she had a kind of shock. We called the doctor and he gave her two injections and later another one. She was completely stiff.

P : Oh yes, all over.

HP : She couldn't breathe anymore, and it was better after the injection.

A : We will talk about the effect of the remedy. Don't worry, it will go rather quickly, because we know what is going on.

Were you very thirsty the last few years? Or how was it? Or did you like particular things to eat?

P : Yes, I drank a lot, that's right.

A : And what did you drink?

P : Coffee.

A : Only coffee?

P : Yes, but not strong coffee.

A : Did you like to eat certain things in between?

P : Hmmm (Silence)

I always wanted to eat something. I didn't feel hungry, but nevertheless I wanted something to eat. It happened very seldom, because I felt so miserable, but I always wanted something to eat. I always wanted to eat something, but I didn't have an appetite for anything in particular.

A : Did you have the feeling to eat away your grief?

P : I sat all day and I didn't gain weight.

This is which rubric?

GENERALITIES, Eatingamel.

Remark: Under "Face, distortion on speaking" Ignatia is the only remedy.

A : Yes, but it is a real paralysis.

Remark: Nevertheless it is a distortion by aspect.

A : That's interesting. You find this rubric on page 364:

FACE, Distortion, speaking, on: Ign

The rubric before the rubric "distortion" is printed wrong in many Repertories. There it says "discoloration", but it must be "dislocation" (easy dislocation of jaws).

A : But you remained thin.

P : Yes. At that time I lost 16 kilos.

The remedy is not mentioned in the rubric on page 479:

STOMACH, Appetite, ravenous, emaciation, with

Natrummuriaticum is there, but not Ignatia. I added Ignatia. I also added Ignatia in the rubric on page 1358:

GENERALITIES, Emaciation, grief, after

A : What about your appetite for particular things?

P : Not that I know of. I like to eat some sweet things, but it has always been so.

A : Other things you like to eat? Because you are still in this state. What about fruit?

P : I don't eat a lot of fruit.

A : You don't like to eat fruit?

P : Yes, I like it, but I don't have much appetite. But I like to eat it ...

A : ... but you don't eat much of it.

P : Exactly.

Barytacarbonica and Ignatia have an aversion to fruit, and both have a desire for fruit.

A : What about sour and sweet?

P : I like both.

A : Were there also periods that you wanted to eat something, but you didn't know what?

P : Yes, but there is enough choice to put something into your mouth.

A : Something which tastes good?

P : Yes. I wanted to eat something which really tastes good. I was always searching for something nice to eat, but I didn't find anything. I just don't have an appetite anymore. Nothing tastes.

This is which rubric?

Look on page 485:

STOMACH, Desires, indistinct, knows not what: ... Ign...

In this rubric you find another remedy which we sometimes need in vomiting during pregnancy, and this is what remedy?

Audience: Ipecacuanha.

A : Yes, right. Ipecacuanha. Constant nausea with clear tongue.

A : What do you like on your slice of bread?

P : Jam, chocolate paste, sometimes also horse meat.

A : Horse meat?

P : Yes, smoked horse meat.

The desire for smoked things makes us think of which remedy?

Answer: Causticum

A : Yes, Causticum, because Causticum is also an important remedy in paralysis. On which side is the paralysis in Causticum usually?

On the right side, but it might be on the left side as well.

What food do I expect they like to eat?

Audience: Cheese.

A : Right, cheese. Ignatia likes cheese, like Pulsatilla.

A : What about cheese? You never eat cheese?

P : Well, little. I eat it, but very little of it.

A : I saw you fourteen days ago, and when you sat like that ...

P : It's gone now.

A : What complaint did you have at that time, tell me.

P : I couldn't breathe deeply. I had the feeling it had to be deeper. I always tried to breathe deeply, but I couldn't. Sometimes I still have it.

A : If you breathe deeply, it does you good.

On page 766 you find the rubric:

RESPIRATION, Deep, impossible

Ignatia is not there, but Cocculus is.

P : Then I'm completely relieved, but afterwards it starts again.

A : I could see you suffered from this at that time. You were constantly breathing deeply. Also you had the feeling there was an oppression.

P : You asked me whether I had a lump in my throat, but I hadn't.

A : The consultation lasted only a few minutes. Tell me first what has improved.

P : The deep breathing.

A : Now you can breathe deeply.

P : Yes. Now I don't have to sigh so much.

A : You took the remedy 14 days ago. What happened with the paralysis?

P : In the morning I look immediately into the mirror. I always look into the mirror and I try to do some movements with the muscles of my face, and this morning - I noticed that I could move my face again, and my mouth wasn't so wry anymore.

A : Yes, your mouth is not so wry anymore. Your nose was also completely wry and the eye ... Close your eye.

P : (closes her eye)

A : You can almost close it again.

P : Before I couldn't at all.

A : All right. Don't do anything at all, because the remedy is working. Sometimes it goes very quickly in Homeopathy, but because your problem has been there a long time I expect an amelioration of one or another symptom before this improves. I would like to see you again on Saturday.

This was in October, we gave her Ignatia 10M.

FEEDBACK (2 days later)

A : Tell me how did it go?

P : It improved gradually. I notice that the tension in my face has disappeared and that I can move it more and more. I still have problems with my eye.

A : You are not able to close it completely yet?

P : No. I can close it, but I always have the feeling that I have a sleepy eye. When I go outside I don't see well. I see everything like ...

A : What do you mean? Double?

P : Yes, with stripes, with a kind of gleam as if there is a kind of skin before my eyes. When I rub them it goes away.

A : Maybe the tear production, the moisture is too little.

P : I don't know, but it feels like that. My eye feels as if it doesn't have enough moisture. Sometimes it is blurred, as if I am looking through plastic.

A : Close your eye.

P : (Closes her eye)

A : Compared to a few days ago it is much better now.

P : Yes, it is much better. I saw it in the mirror of the car. Now I have the feeling that everything is very tense.

A : Has the sleepy feeling gone?

P : I don't have the sleepy feeling anymore.

A : Only stiff?

P : Yes. I just couldn't move it.

A : Do you have feeling in the left part of your face?

P : I feel everything, but I always did.

A : The sensation wasn't gone?

P : No.

A : And how are you doing in general?

P : When I close my eye it trembles, the more I screw up my eye. I don't have this anymore, but it often vibrates.

A : And in general?

P : I feel a lot better.

A : You look cheerful. You can laugh.

HP : Yes, when it ameliorates you get more courage. I also think that her nerves are better.

P : I'm more quiet now.

The paralysis has disappeared. When the remedy is not in the rubric "Face, paralysis", don't stick to your Repertory! First of all try to understand what happened and then you can decide.

Both rubrics which indicate the remedy are:

EXTREMITIES, Paralysis, hysterical

EXTREMITIES, Paralysis, mental emotion, after

In the rubric "Paralysis, hysterical" there is another remedy which you should not forget. A few days ago I had to supervise the case of a patient who had paralysis on the left side with contraction of the joints at the same time. He couldn't extend his legs. The patient was in his mid fifties, was married for the third time, and every time he would talk with his son he suddenly would get paralysis of the vocal cords. It was hysterical paralysis. The diagnosis for the left-sided paralysis was Multiple Sclerosis.

When he came to me I saw a blue-green line at the apex of the gums and I knew it was Plumbum. The treating doctor thought it couldn't be Plumbum because Plumbum doesn't have hysterical paralysis of the vocal cords, but in the rubric "Extremities, paralysis, hysterical" you also find Plumbum.

You can only find paralysis from emotions in the two above mentioned rubrics, that is the only possibility.

CASE2

Depression

Ignatiaamara

Case

Woman, 60 years old

Ignatia states are very dangerous states which can progress even to death. Ignatia states can produce heart infarcts, brain hemorrhage or death.

The patient you will see now is constitutionally Graphites.

A : What's the matter?

P : (almost crying) Yesterday my daughter came. She divorced her husband and now she is all alone with her 4 year old child. And this affected my heart.

It might be, don't ignore that. Ignatia is not only a hysterical remedy. If the grief is really very strong it might affect their heart.

P : I don't know what to do.

A : What happened?

P : Yesterday night at 12:30 a.m. my daughter came to me and said that she divorced her husband, that she left him.

A : Is this your son?

P : No, he is my son-in-law. She said that she wanted to divorce him and I said, "What are you saying? There hasn't been anything wrong with your relationship." "Yes, we are divorcing." "Then tell me what's wrong so that we can find a solution.", but she didn't want to say anything. This affected my heart.

A : What do you feel exactly?

P : My heart is beating. I'm broken.

Notice that in these cases Ignatia can be very loquacious, while in other cases they can be completely speechless. This is different. With this patient everything comes out like that. You could confuse this with Cimicifuga, they tell the symptoms very quickly, they are loquacious and they don't change in the sense that they won't tell anything.

P : I was busy all night and I cried because of the child. It is only 4 years old. It is so bad that she is leaving. I felt very strange, as if I would faint. I had such anxiety. I wanted to call you. My throat was constricting. I couldn't breathe anymore, my throat was closing. I couldn't breathe, it was as if I was choking.

A : Is there anything in your throat?

P : No, I feel that everything is coming upwards.

A : What?

P : I don't know what it is. There is something which is coming upwards. (while talking she is breathing very deeply)

A : Were you startled on hearing this news?

P : Yes, very much. They never told me anything. He still helped me in the garden. I never noticed that there was anything wrong. I didn't know at all what was going on.

A : Did you sleep last night?

P : No, I walked about all night. I couldn't stay in bed. I called you immediately to make an appointment. I don't know what is wrong with me. I feel very strange. I had a feeling as if I would die.

Does this remedy have the feeling of approaching death? I don't know. Let's have a look.

It is not mentioned in the rubrics on page 17:

MIND, Death, thoughts of

MIND, Death, sensation of

MIND, Death, presentiment of

A : Did you faint?

P : It was as if I was fainting. I don't know what it was.

(Her companion is fetched)

P : (to husband) Can you tell him what I did at home when I felt so strange, when I faded out?

HP : She was walking awry.

A : Did she have the tendency to faint?

HP : No, she was a kind of tumbling. You couldn't talk to her anymore.

P : He (the son-in-law) was a very good man, we never noticed anything wrong. But she doesn't want to say what's wrong (weeping)

A : Don't worry, we will do everything we can to get you out of this state as soon as possible.

Do you see how she is sighing?

You can't make a video of most Ignatia patients in such a state, but this patient has so much confidence that she allows me do to anything I want and so I made a video of her.

FEEDBACK (3 days later)

A : You were here three days ago.

P : Yes.

A : In connection with what you experienced you felt very badly, dizzy and so on. You took the tablet and how did it go?

P : I became more quiet. Of course it didn't disappear immediately, but I noticed that the constriction was gone. On Sunday it was as if everything was completely constricted. It was gone, well not completely, because sometimes I still had this constriction. Maybe this will last awhile. Sometimes I still have to cry.

A : But you don't feel so bad anymore.

P : No, no, not as bad as on Sunday.

A : Have you talked to your daughter?

HP : I also said, "My girl, but why? Be quiet, because you will become ill."

A : But she couldn't change anything about it.

HP : No, no, it is not her fault. Probably it was getting worse for quite a while. She didn't want to talk about it so quickly. She can't change it. I want to support and help her, but this is impossible at the moment.

Her husband listened to her, but it didn't help. The remedy helped.

A : Did you have vertigo?

P : Yesterday once.

A : How quickly after the remedy did you notice that the constriction had disappeared?

P : About one hour later.

A : Then you already felt better?

P : Yes, then I noticed it was better. It was as if - how shall I say - I felt as if I was swollen and afterwards it opened again. I could breathe better and more deeply.

A : You see that it improved very quickly?

P : Yes, it improved really very quickly.

A : Did you notice you could talk better about it afterwards and digest it better?

P : Yes, it is a little bit better. First I could only cry as a reaction, and now I cry less.

HP : I think she must try to talk more about it, because otherwise she's thinking only about this.

A : She has been overwhelmed by her feelings she can try to talk about it, but she must be able to.

HP : You don't like to talk about this with a stranger. Maybe she should talk to a girl-friend or an acquaintance. This might relieve her.

A : Did she talk about this with you?

HP : Yes, she did. Then she talks a lot. From the moment she starts talking about it immediately she starts crying, also on Sunday. You love your grandchildren more than your own children.

A : Is that true?

P : Yes, yes, I do.

HP : From the moment she starts talking she starts crying. But we cannot change anything. That is modern time, they can do what they want. You cannot change anything at all.

Do you see the sympathy in her, "What will happen to the child?" It is the sympathetic element of Ignatia and on the other side the effect of wounded honor.

CASE3

Allergy

Ignatiaamara

Case

Girl, 11 years old

May 2, 1988

This is a girl who I couldn't understand for a long time. This child had recurrent tonsillitis. With the examination of the tonsils you could see small follicular inflammations with small white patches, this means white pus. She suffered from this for several years and it always came back. She also had continuous itching of the rectum from worms.

A :Your problem is allergy to cats and housedust. With every cold you had asthma. Watery colds, sneezing, especially sensitive to cats. You are always warm, you like cold milk a lot, like to eat ice cream, bacon and salami.

Look at her mouth!

You can see a kind of twitching; it is not really twitching, but ...

A : You are self-secure and like to travel. You reacted very well to Tuberculinum.

The hay fever, the cough and the asthma became better on Tuberculinum. But then ...

A : But afterwards a second symptom appeared, namely there was a purulent patch on the right tonsil, like a little ball which you could squeeze out. She didn't have fever?

MP : No.

A : Secondly she had recurrent follicular tonsillitis. Another symptom which always returned was itching of the anus from worms. She also had worms?

MP : Yes, little worms.

Together with this inflammation all the time she had itching in the rectum from worms. This is a very strange combination.

A : She couldn't tolerate any tobacco smoke or tobacco smell at all.

MP : No.

Aggravation from tobacco.

If you are sitting somewhere and two tables away a woman starts coughing when you are smoking this is Ignatia. Ignatia is the first, the most important remedy which doesn't tolerate tobacco smoke.

When I was following a course with Vithoulkas in Edipsos there was also a woman who complained about my smoking, although we were very close to the sea with a lot of fresh air! This was clearly Ignatia. She adored George on her knees.

People who come from America with the picture of George on their chest need Ignatia.

A : She liked fruit a lot.

MP : Yes, a lot.

A : A strong characteristic of hers was that she was rather impatient. Or are you still?

FP : Yes, she is.

A : Hypersensitive.

P : When I fell and they had to remove the dirt from the wound it hurt a lot.

A : I mean really impatient, she cannot wait, it doesn't go quickly enough for her.

FP : That's typical.

A : And also changing moods. Sometimes she is easily down and she weeps easily. She was also sighing, wasn't she? It is difficult to understand. Nervous. She is quick in her way of reacting. In school she is probably doing very well.

FP : One of the best in her class.

A : It is also remarkable that you take so much care of her. We can't say it's too much, but with the slightest thing she has you pay attention to her.

FP : Yes, because we have only one child. Up to the age of 2 years she was ill very often and therefore maybe we are a little bit too concerned about her.

FP : She has been very untidy for a while and couldn't dress herself properly. We had to teach her tidiness.

We often find this remedy in families who overprotect their children. They care too much about their child. She may not eat an apple that hasn't been washed; they worry that she could fall when she is running and so on. The parents worry too much and the child becomes hysterical.

A : The hay fever and the asthma have disappeared.

FP : No, they haven't disappeared completely.

A : She still reacts in an allergic way?

MP : Yes, she is still sneezing in the morning.

A : But she has no shortness of breath anymore?

MP : She almost doesn't have a cold anymore. During an influenza or diarrhea she also had shortness of breath. You said that you couldn't breathe anymore.

P : No. I have had diarrhea for many nights, I couldn't sleep for many nights because I had nightmares; I had to keep my eyes open. I slept on the eiderdown, and when I had to go to the toilet - many nights I had to keep a handkerchief before my nose.

A : The last few months the tonsils are all right, there are no purulent spots anymore. I checked the last time. The worms and the itching also have disappeared. She doesn't have problems anymore. Has she also changed by character? Has she become more quiet? Or has she remained the same?

FP : I have the impression that she can handle things more quietly than before.

She is the only child in the family. Her father is a teacher, her mother also and they are constantly worried about their child. This child gives a somewhat haughty impression, maybe a little bit aristocratic.

It is very interesting what Kent writes. You can see what he writes comes from his own experience and not from other teachers, "...sensitive, highly educated, overloaded at school, in studies or in practicing an art profession."

These are very highly educated people who give you a somewhat haughty expression, so that you have to think of Platina in certain circumstances.

First she received many wrong remedies, for example, Platina and Lycopodium.She gives a Lycopodium impression, but she doesn't talk so much, and when she talks it is in a certain way.

Often we think that Ignatia is a hysterical remedy. Put this out of your mind. All kinds of inflammations can be Ignatia, bronchitis, severe kidney inflammations after grief with leukocytes, bacteria, blood in the urine, it can all be Ignatia. All kinds of serious inflammations, usually local inflammations can be Ignatia.

Also think of Ignatia in teething children. They behave just like Chamomilla and they also have the one-sided redness of the face.

Look in the rubric on page 454:

THROAT, Inflammation, follicular

Follicular means that you see small follicles, small patches of pus on the tonsils.Natrummuriaticum is also in this rubric, but Ignatia is capital.

Then concerning the rectum. You find the following rubric on page 634:

RECTUM, Worm, ascarides

There is also the rubric:

RECTUM, Worm, lumbricoides

"Lumbricoides" means the large worms of 30 cm and "ascarides" means the small oxyuren of about 1 cm.

You find Ignatia in the following two rubrics:

RECTUM, Itching, ascarides, from: ... ign ...

RECTUM, Worm, ascarides: ... ign ...

You see she is a refined girl who you don't dare to touch because she is special.

FP : For example, the episodes of "I can't do it", I don't know whether she is play acting or not. If she had to take an examination five or six months ago - in the fifth class they have to take an examination almost every day - she was always in a panic, "I can't do it", and she always had the best marks. She is just afraid she can't do it. This is the insecurity, she is not sure. But I think it is better the last few weeks.

MP : She doesn't have many friends, because she is so dictatorial.

A : Yes, she is dictatorial and the others can't play with her. That's the point, isn't it?

P : No, there is a girl who can't stand the way I'm dressed. She is the leader of the class and everybody has to obey her. That's not fair and that's why I am the one who attacks her.

A : Do you still like fruit?

P : Yes.

A : Do you take fruit to school?

MP : Yes, she does.

A : What kind of fruit does she take to school?

MP : Bananas, sometimes also apples or kiwis; these things she likes very much.

A : I notice that she is easily excited. This is a characteristic of hers.

MP : Maybe she gets it from me, because I'm also easily excited.

A : Yes, yes, the apple never falls far from the tree.

She does not tolerate contradiction. Ignatia is capital in this rubric. In the rubric "disposition to contradict" you also find Ignatia, but in the rubric "intolerant to contradiction" Ignatia is capital. It is even stronger in Ignatia than in Aurum. She is easily excited and then she is laughing again. She can go from one extreme to the other.

She is impatient. Boericke describes it very well: "Especially adapted to the nervous temperament-women of sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution." Rapid, very quick in acting.

A : Anyway after searching a long time we finally found the remedy for her recurrent tonsillitis, the worms and the itching.

She received many remedies before, Lycopodium, Podophyllum, Sabadilla, Nux vomica - and the differential diagnosis with Nux vomica in this case is not easy - Pulsatilla, Lycopodium and then Tuberculinum. Afterwards Natrummuriaticum, which didn't do anything at all, again Pulsatilla, Platina and then finally Ignatia, and Ignatia solved the problem.

The impression you get from this child is very important. She has a nervous temperament, is very nervous and apprehensive when she has to take an examination. Don't forget this remedy in highly educated girls who have to study a lot and who are overcared for at home. They have everything, they get everything that they want and finally they become the kind of person with whom it is impossible to live.

Question: What is the causation?

A : The causation is their education. They are overtaxed girls who are not able to control their feelings. Every disturbing word affects them, they are highly cultivated hysterical girls from high society.

Question: White spots on the tonsils ....suppuration of the tonsils...?

A : Yes, this is an inflammation. You see these purulent spots and wherever there is pus there is an inflammation. The tonsil is inflamed, but only in one spot, one focus, follicular.

Remark: But there is another rubric: "white spots on the tonsils..."

A : No, this is not a corresponding rubric.

Question: Did you find out whether the parents smoke?

A : No, the parents don't smoke, neither the father, nor the mother. They are very concerned about their health and that of their daughter so they don't smoke.

Question: But how do you know she doesn't tolerate tobacco smoke?

A : Whenever she enters a room in which people are smoking she cannot tolerate it.

CASE4

Ignatiaamara

Case

Woman, 60 years old

You see that this woman is wearing a wig.

A : Can you tell me what you feel in your chest?

P : It is as if there is a wound.

Did you hear the expression she used? It is as if she is wounded.

Wounded with hair falling out is which remedy?

Audience: Staphisagria.

A : Yes, wounded honor together with falling hair, Staphisagria is capital.

P : And like a cramp extending upwards.

A : Yes.

P : It stays in my throat.

A :Hm ... - and it's in your chest?

P : Yes, here. It extends towards my back.

A : Towards your back. Hmm, all right. How long have you had this pain?

P : Doctor, I have been in the hospital for observation already three times.

A : Already three times! And they didn't find anything at all?

P : No, they didn't.

A : In the past you had jaundice?

P : Yes, seven years ago, from May until December.

A : And what was the cause?

P : Very bad blood.

A : When did the pain in the chest begin?

P : I can't say, doctor. Sometimes when I ate something and sometimes when I was just sitting and thinking.

A : So it can also start when you are just sitting and thinking?

P : Yes.

A : What do you have to do to improve the pain?

P : Eat something. It is as if my stomach always has to be filled, then I don't have pain. Sometimes I eat a slice of smoked meat, and then I think it is much better. It seems as if the stomach always has to be busy.

A : Do you like smoked meat?

P : No. I eat it because I think it is the best thing to do.

A : Does the pain disappear then?

P : Also with bread.

A : When you eat bread the pain also disappears. Hmmmm. Actually you feel better when you eat something.

P : Yes.

A : Are there other situations in which the pain ameliorates?

P : When I belch.

A : When you belch, it is better.

P : Yes. Sometimes I can belch 10 to 15 times.

A : Does this help also?

P : Yes, then it is better.

A : But strangely enough, eating ameliorates also.

P : Yes, it ameliorates also.

A : Do you think the weather plays a role?

P : No, I don't think so.

A : And what about the jaundice you had, the icterus? At that time your hair fell out?

P : My hair fell out before. I looked into the mirror and I said to my children, "Is my hair falling out or what is wrong with me?" And they said, "Mother, it's your imagination."

This was the first consultation, and at the second consultation, with the feedback I repeated it partially. Therefore I have to rewind the tape.

There must be a relationship between the hair falling out, the icterus and the problem she has now.

Look at the rubric on page 1307:

SKIN, Discoloration, yellow, jaundice: ...ign ...

You don't find Ignatia in the rubric on page 120:

HEAD, Hair, falling

Or is Ignatia an addition of this rubric?

Audience: No.

Remark: Yes, there is an addition of Ignatia from Boenninghausen.

A : Aha, there is an addition. I'm sure it should be there, but it's strange it is not in the Repertory.

FEEDBACK

A : At that time you came here with a very strange problem.

P : I had a pain in the chest extending to my throat and then to my ears. It seemed to come out through my ears. Sometimes it lasted for 1 1/2 hours, and afterwards I was really dull.

A : Did you have this many times a day?

P : No, once was more than enough. Sometimes I had it at 10:00 a.m. , it didn't necessarily have anything to do with eating. While eating - well yes, it could have been caused by my stomach. Therefore I had X-rays of my stomach. Then they told me that it was because of the contraction of the stomach muscles. They told me to eat more often. Lately I have been really dependent upon that.

A : The pain in the chest extending to the throat and coming out through the ear improved while eating.

P : Yes, then it was better. First I didn't know, but when they told me that I should eat more often I noticed that it became better.

A : And what happened when you had to belch?

P : Oh, I had to belch about 20 times.

A : So very often.

P : Yes, very often.

A : And did the pain improve by that?

P : Yes, it helped.

A : Did you have this pain also at night?

P : Yes, it might also occur at night.

A : What did you do then?

P : I got up and ate something.

This is another symptom: appetite at night. She wakes up to eat something.

Look at the rubric on page 477:

STOMACH, Appetite, night: ... Chin ... ign ... Lyc, Phos ... Psor ...

A : That is strange. In the past you had falling hair and jaundice. Tell me something about it.

P : At that time my blood was very bad. I had too much of everything.

A : What do you mean?

P : Of fats and so on. I can't say exactly, doctor. If you would like to know I will contact my family doctor ...

A : No, it is not necessary.

P : No?

A : No, I only have to know what you felt at that time.

P : At that time I didn't feel anything at all. I had this falling hair and my family doctor said that I should see another doctor.

A : Your family doctor didn't want to treat you?

P : He said he couldn't do anything about it and sent me to another doctor. I saw another doctor and he said that I was too fat, that I should go for weight control. I didn't feel like going to weight watchers, sir Doctor, because you have to pay if you don't lose weight, and we still have the children at home ...

Do you see what kind of problems these people have?

They go to the doctor and say, "I have stomachache, and when I eat it becomes better." "Yes, all right, you continue eating," so she gains a lot of weight. Then she sees another doctor who tells her that she has to lose weight, that she must eat less.

What's this all about, this to and fro?

A : But then you saw a doctor who gave you medicines for the hair falling?

P : Yes, for my hair, and injections.

A : And then you got this jaundice?

P : Yes, then I became yellow.

A : And this was caused by the medicines which you took for your hair?

P : Yes, I saw the doctor and said, "Doctor, I don't have a desire for anything; I think I have jaundice." He startled, examined me and it was true.

A : And then all the medicines were stopped?

P : Yes.

A : Since then you haven't taken any medicines anymore?

P : No.

What do you think of this from a homeopathic point of view? The falling hair is treated with medicines and then she gets jaundice. What is this?

Audience: It is going inside.

A : This is suppression.

I think that often it is not because of the side effects of the medication. But what does side effect mean?

It means that the body reacts. The disease is suppressed with a medication and the body reacts with another, deeper disease. There are medicines with which you can really create a miasm, which cause the same side effects in everyone, but mostly the side effects are a consequence of the suppression of the disease.

The disease which comes up after the suppression indicates the same remedy as the original disease. That is important.

A : When did the problems with your stomach start?

P : I don't know, doctor.

A : What happened at that time?

P : Problems with the family and these kinds of things.

A : Problems with the family....

P : But I didn't think that was the cause.

A : Yes, this can be caused by these kind of things. Problems with the family ... With your daughter?

P : No, first with my husband and afterwards with my daughter.

A : Did you have problems with your husband?

P : Yes, doctor, a lot.

A : Yes?

P : Often he went out with my son-in-law. In the past this happened a few times, and I didn't say anything. They came home late at night. They went out to have a drink, and for me that's no problem, but they always wanted me to join them. And I didn't want to.

He is the kind of person who says, "My will is law," so according to the motto, "what I say, must happen." And I took care of the children and I shouldn't have done this.

It became too much for me and I told him, "You have your family, and I have mine. I do what I think is good and ..."

FEEDBACK

Now I will show you the reaction to the remedy.

A : At that time you had problems at home and you had pain in your chest, after your hair had fallen out.

P : Yes.

A : The pain in the chest has gone now.

P : Yes, I think it is gone.

A : You suffered a lot from it.

P : Yes, I had it for quite a long time.

A : You had many problems with that?

P : I had been in the hospital for observation three times, but they couldn't find anything at all. And I had to eat something constantly.

A : Do you still have such a strong tendency to eat?

P : No, doctor, it is much less.

A : You don't have the feeling anymore of eating something necessarily?

P : No, not anything like that. I can only eat in the morning and then at noon. In the past I had to eat constantly.

A : You had to eat your unhappiness away?

P : Yes, as you say.

A : You always had to eat and eat?

P : Yes, but now it is over.

A : Do you still get up at night to eat something?

P : No, not at all.

A : These times are past?

P : Yes, I don't even think about it anymore.

A : After you went to a psychiatrist the disease remained the same; it hadn't improved much, had it?

P : No, at that time it hadn't.

A : But now you feel better?

P : Yes, actually I do.

A : That is an indication you have become stronger.

P : Now I can talk much easier about it.

A : In the past you always had to cry.

P : Sometimes I still do.

I haven't shown you the patient with the headache, but in headache from grief, Ignatia is a very important remedy. The headache of Ignatia is as of a nail, like Thuja.

You also know the rubric on page 1378:

GENERALITIES, Pain, Small spots: ... ign ... thuj

The headache ameliorates lying on the painful side. This is another contradictory symptom for Ignatia.

Always think of Ignatia if the causation is grief.

Question: Did her hair grow afterwards?

A : No, no. I don't think anything can be done about this problem, because her hair fell out a long time ago.

CASE5

Vertigo

Ignatiaamara

Case

Woman, 60 years old

This is another very interesting case with all kinds of complaints, going to unconsciousness.

In people who are suffering you often see these vertical lines on the upper lip. This does not indicate a particular remedy, but in general it is a remedy for emotional suffering.

A : You came the first time on July 23, 1986. You must correct me if I'm wrong and add when I forget something. Your complaint was vertigo especially on looking downwards and upwards.

P : Yes.

A : Do you remember if you had vertigo in other circumstances?

P : Yes, in bed at night. I woke up from vertigo at night.

A : Did you have vertigo in other situations?

P : Yes, actually I always had it.

A : What do you mean?

P : For example, when I opened a cupboard, or when I got out of bed, I always had vertigo.

A : With certain movements?

P : Yes.

A : But at night when you didn't move you also woke up from vertigo.

P : Yes.

A : Not when you were turning in bed?

P : No, I just woke up from vertigo.

A : So that was the first complaint.

What remedy do we think of first in this age group with vertigo?

Of Conium. If somebody of this age complains about vertigo Conium and Barytacarbonica are the most important remedies, but Conium is the first remedy.

A : Your joints were hurting and all your complaints were on the left side.

This remedy is rather left-sided, all the complaints are on the left side; and in this patient all the complaints were on the left side. She is about 60 years old, so they could be climacteric complaints. What remedy do you think of? Lachesis.

A : You didn't have any complaints on the right side?

P : No, not so many.

A : It was your left shoulder, your left arm, your left knee and your right foot. It concerned your muscles and your joints.

P : Yes.

A : You also had pain in the vertebrae of your neck.

P : Yes, very much.

A : When was it worse?

P : If I suffered from this pain I would have suffered all day long; also in bed I used a special pillow, but nevertheless it still hurt.

A : Did the weather play a role?

P : I think it was worse with damp weather, and when I became cold I was stiff all over.

A : The third problem was that you easily had diarrhea, usually at night.

P : Yes.

A : And vomiting, or anyway the tendency to, retching. How was your stool?

P : It was pure water.

A : There was no blood with it? Was it a particular color?

P : No.

A : Did it come suddenly?

P :Yes, it came suddenly at night.

A : Did you wake up from that?

P : Yes, and at the same time I had vertigo.

A : And you were nauseous.

P : Yes, actually I was unconscious.

A : So a kind of unconsciousness. And you lost your stool in bed?

P : Yes. I could get up, but then I became unconscious.

A : After you had been to the toilet?

P : No, in the meantime.

A : On the toilet?

P : Yes, also on the toilet, I was completely unconscious.

A : At that moment you were not aware of anything at all. Did you fall down?

P : I lay down on the ground.

This is very interesting, and I remember another case. One or two years ago the husband of a woman who was 82 years old at that time, died. The children called me suddenly and begged me to come very quickly, because there was something wrong with their mother. She was sitting on a chair with her eyes closed and didn't react to anything at all. I thought she must have had a hemorrhage or something like that, but then she would have had symptoms of paralysis. I opened her eyes, no corneal reflex. She was completely comatose and didn't react at all. The blood pressure and the pulse were completely normal. I didn't understand what it meant.

First her husband died, and two days before she had had a disagreement with her son, so there were problems.

I called the hospital and said to the doctor that I would send her, because eventually there could be an organic change, but I didn't believe he would find anything. I wasn't sure whether there was anything wrong or not and if you don't send them to the hospital and there should be something wrong it is bad for you.

So I sent her to the hospital and I gave her the remedy in 10M potency. The doctor examined her and a few hours later she was awake and everything was over. He didn't find anything at all during his examination.

It was an Ignatia state. They can even be unconscious, but you don't find the kind of respiration that you see in dangerous Opium cases. Seemingly the same state you can find in Cimicifuga. I had a patient whose neuralgic pain and other complaints disappeared on Cimicifuga. One month later she called me because she had problems again and I told her to make an appointment. When she came to the Center suddenly she fell and she was unconscious. She was lying on the ground, almost 90 kg. If something like this happens you might get heart palpitations. I gave her Cimicifuga 10M very quickly and 30 seconds later she woke up again. If I didn't know her remedy I wouldn't have found it at that moment. It would have been impossible.

In this case there was a cornea reflex.

I knew this was Cimicifuga. She was very loquacious and so on and that was the reason I could give her Cimicifuga. In these cases you don't find a real serious disease, I mean on the level of the heart or the cerebrum. It is as if they don't want to react, not even to the light. Purely psychological reasons lie at the root of all this and can cause a coma state.

P : Then I had to go to the toilet again and I became unconscious again.

A : But not when you went to the toilet. That's impossible!

P : No, I had to get out of bed and my husband had to help me.

A : Did you really become unconscious?

P : Yes, really unconscious.

A : There was another complaint: headache in the occiput, which appeared when you received a call from your family.

P : Yes, I got a headache in the occiput, my voice disappeared, I couldn't talk anymore. Then there was something in my throat, I started trembling and I couldn't answer.

Which rubric is this?

You don't know the second story, namely the problem with her mother who lives in her neighborhood. Her sister telephoned her and every time she calls they have a discussion about their mother. This is which rubric?

Audience: .... (not understandable)

A : Yes, ailments from bad news. Every time she gets news she doesn't like to hear she gets this hoarseness.

You find this rubric on page 9:

MIND, Bad news, ailments from: ... nat-m ...

In this case you can also see a crack in the lower lip.

Personally I think of Ignatia and I added it in the rubric. You don't have to do this, it is my personal decision.

A : You got this when you received news from your family.

P : Yes, when it concerned the family.

A : The vertigo and the retching went along with the noises in the ear.

P : Yes, and actually I couldn't hear anything at all, my head was so numb and there were noises in my ear.

A : At that time I also observed - of course now you are a lot healthier - during the last consultation you cried for the first time. You said that you take everything to heart.

P : Yes, very much.

A : And the next symptom was that you didn't sleep all night and had been thinking.

P : Yes, all night long. I fell asleep and immediately I woke up again. Maybe I slept three or four minutes.

A : You had been thinking about the problem with your mother all night long.

Sleeplessness from grief, the three remedies are: Ignatia, Natrummuriaticum and Kali bromatum. Kali bromatum is a very interesting remedy.

A : Can you briefly tell me the story about your parents? What was the clue of this story?

P : It started with the fact that my father was of little account at home. He was a very good person, but my mother wanted to get rid of him. This was a few years ago. At that time the children and the family doctor had a meeting. I had discussed it with my family doctor, because I thought that my father shouldn't have to go away, because he hadn't done anything malicious, and my family doctor said that he should stay at home. My mother claimed that he would turn on the gas, but he didn't at all. She only made this up in order to make him look bad. All the children discussed it with the family doctor all Sunday afternoon and everybody thought that father would never do a thing like that, except one sister. She's the one who lives in Brussels and whenever I see her it gets my goat. She said that we should take father away so the quarrel would be over at last.

He stayed at home and he fell off the stairs. He broke his hip and he had to go to the hospital. We didn't know anything about this accident. He had been lying at the bottom of the stairs for two hours and my mother didn't call any of us. After two hours she finally called the doctor and they brought father to the hospital. Every day my husband went to the hospital to take care of him, to give his tablets and so on, and when he arrived one day my father was gone, they already had done surgery, they put in a new hip.

After three weeks he could walk again and he wasn't allowed to stay in the hospital. He had to go home but my mother wouldn't allow it.

Every time we visited him in the hospital the nurse said, "Take your father home, " and my mother said, "I won't take him home with me anymore."

Once my sister drove away with him, and they broke the door open. I wasn't there then. I couldn't see it, I stayed home.

Later my mother said that I incited it, that I made plans with the Social Services of the hospital, but that's not right. I never talked to Social Services about it. In the hospital they said that they didn't have room for him and he had to go home. We took turns caring for him because he couldn't stay alone at night. When he got up alone he fell. Therefore we took turns staying with him at night, during the day there was Social Service. It was inhuman. My mother switched on the radio, the light and uncovered my father. My younger siblings couldn't persevere because they worked during the day. Who was left? I and the three eldest. This means that I had to take care of him three nights a week, but I couldn't persevere either. Maybe it would have been all right if we didn't have quarrels, but it couldn't go on like that. We had to sleep on the floor. There was a sofa, but we were not allowed to sleep on it.

And then we had to give our father away, we couldn't continue any longer.

Again he was in the hospital for one year and somebody had to stay with him all day. Then it was my turn again. I had to stay in the hospital three days a week, and bring him to Leuven with my brother every day for nine months. At that time I lost 8 kilos. I couldn't cope with it any longer, but there was nobody else. My husband and I were at home, so it was obvious we had to do it. It became too much.

A : That was the story. At that time what did you like to eat?

P : I like to eat everything.

A : Do you have any preference?

P : I like to eat fruit and vegetables. I eat a lot of them. I gain weight so, I have to be careful.

A : I gave you the remedy on July 23, 1986. Tell me what the reaction was to the remedy.

P : It was very bad.

A : You received one tablet.

P : Yes. The following night I had a very severe headache and the next night I was completely paralyzed. I had pain in my legs, very strong pain so that I couldn't lie down anymore. I was so anxious!

I was really exhausted. Headache, noises in the ear and my husband said that I was lying there unconscious for two hours with diarrhea.

The next day I had pain in my heart and hip all day long.

Somebody gave a patient Natrummuriaticum 10M and the patient has slept for two weeks. He said that the potency was too high.

Don't be afraid of high potencies. It is important that the remedy is right. With one dose of the right remedy you won't do any harm, because it is positive energy. The patient will react in his own way. If she wants to be unconscious for two or three hours, let her be; if he sleeps for two weeks he needs it.Our anxiety and doubt makes the cases complicated. The only important thing is to be sure of the remedy. You saw the 60 year old patient with the pleurisy who I gave Tuberculinum.

There are also patients who you give a high potency and who die afterwards. Is this because of the high potency?

We don't know. Anyway they were susceptible, otherwise they wouldn't have reacted to the remedy; usually there is a strong reaction only to the right remedy, to the wrong remedy they often do not move, unless you give a Sepia patient the wrong remedy. In general Sepia reacts sensitively to a homeopathic remedy, and it is also the remedy with which you can bring spoiled cases back to order, this means patients who have already received a lot of remedies. This means that the suppressed symptoms appear again.

P : Every day I had another complaint.

A : What other complaints did you have?

P : I became completely depressed. I got a ring and a bracelet from my husband and said, "I will throw everything away." I was anxious, completely paralyzed, I couldn't do anything at all.

We went on holiday and when we arrived I couldn't pack or unpack anything at all. This lasted a few days. On the beach I saw a child who couldn't walk and then I started crying terribly, I just couldn't withhold myself.

She is sympathetic. She saw a little girl who couldn't walk and she started crying. Ignatia is sympathetic, also Nux vomica and Causticum, but they can all be very dictatorial.

P : I couldn't sleep. My husband fetched Baldriandrops in the pharmacy and then I could sleep for one night very well, but the second night I slept badly again.

A : How long did the aggravation last?

P : Three weeks.

A : After the first tablet you felt bad for three weeks?

P : Yes, very bad.

A : And then?

P : The last week of our holidays I felt better.

A : All together the aggravation lasted three weeks; the first days were very bad and the next days it improved. One day it was better and the next day it was worse again, and the last week of your holiday you were doing well.

P : Yes, I felt better.

A : You came back on August 27. You felt better. You slept very well the previous week, you didn't have vertigo anymore, the pain in the muscles was better, the diarrhea was gone, you didn't have noises in your ear anymore, but I think it started slightly again when you were here the last time.

P : When I had to go home it started again.

A : You were at the sea.

P : Yes, in a holiday home and when we drove home I got a severe headache in the car! At home I worked a little bit and then we went to the vacation house of my daughter. I have slept very well for 5 days and haven't had any other complaints.

A : Then you came back home and you were here because you had complaints again. I repeated the remedy, the same remedy in the same potency. How did you react?

P : I have felt very well for nine days and on the ninth day I had a slight pain in my shoulder.

A : There was no aggravation, only an amelioration.

P : Yes.

A : You also slept well?

P : Yes, very well. Until the night before yesterday I slept very well every night.

A : Did you still have diarrhea?

P : No.

A : And vertigo?

P : No. Since the first tablet I haven't had vertigo at all.

A : Did you still have headaches?

P : Yes, some days I still have a headache.

A : It goes up and down.

P : Yes. I can't tolerate any noise. Yesterday I went to a feast at the church and I had to leave. There was really a lot of noise, and I get a severe headache from noise.

A : How do you feel in general?

P : I feel well, very well.

A : And yet it is not 100 %.

P : Yes, the headache. Does it have to disappear all at once?

A : No. It is very good, but the headache ... When do you get a headache?

P : The day before yesterday was very bad.

A : Did something happen?

P : Yes. My mother sent me a message that I had to make sure that all the children did the work at her house, because I'm the eldest. I said I couldn't. I'm in treatment myself. I can't call all my siblings for a meeting. They reproached me for so many things, although I'm not the one who is to blame. I felt very bad, at night I got symptoms of a paralysis and I wondered what I did wrong. But I didn't do anything wrong.

A : You have to do the work at your mother's house?

P : No, I have to take care that all my siblings do the work. I only have two brothers and they suffer from back problems. Who is left? My brothers-in-law don't listen to me. The ones who live in my neighborhood don't want to go anymore, because they are treated very badly and they are reproached constantly for all kinds of things. I got a headache from all this.

Last week the basement at my mother's house was flooded, the toilet was obstructed, my mother called everybody and who went there? My husband. Actually he is not allowed to do it, but we still feel sorry for her. He dug for 4 hours because the drainpipe was full of roots. He dug out big pieces of root and then he told my mother that she had to cut the tree down because it was the fourth time that he had to dig out everything. The roots obstruct the drainpipe, and next year he will surely have to do it again. That's what he told her, the basement was all right again and the day before yesterday my brother from Antwerp passed by and he said, "Is this tree in my mother's way? Why does it have to be cut? If this tree has to be cut she will die. She has been weeping already for one week because of this tree and she called me so that I would come." "But didn't she tell you the rest of the story? She didn't tell you about the drainpipe?" "No, she hasn't told me anything about it. She didn't say a word about it."

My brother comes to me and is angry with me and my husband and says that we have to leave the tree where it is. Of course she doesn't say anything about the rest. I got a terrible headache from this and I trembled all over my body. My brother said that mother had deceived him once again.

A : With your brother everything is all right, isn't it?

P : Yes, very well. But he thought that my mother was sitting there and crying, and that she was doing terribly. She can act very well so that you feel sorry for her. The siblings who live a distance away always believe her. My sister from Brussels reproached me so many times until she realized that it wasn't true. I didn't sleep the whole night, I was completely paralyzed and I felt very bad and I thought that I did something wrong again. But it was not true.

A : I will take care that you will be all right again. It won't be so difficult because in the meantime I have learned to know you, but I would advise you once again to stay away from your mother as much as possible, to back away from the influence of your mother. You have become stronger.

P : Yes, I'm stronger. I feel much stronger.

A : Now I will give you a higher potency or maybe once again the same potency. But it is not good to rake up this fire again and again.

P : I'm already anxious about tomorrow, anxious about what is coming. Now the neighbors go to her house.

A : What do you mean?

P : My mother doesn't agree with any of us and now she stirs up the neighbors. She called the police and accused the neighbors of things which aren't true at all.

She is 80 years old and is well informed about everything. She saw all the movies, read all the books, she is very intelligent, but now she starts acting insane. She took a cat from the street and she called the police to tell them that the neighbors wanted to take away the cat. She develops this kind of persecution mania. I don't know what we should do now. My brother-in-law is a policeman, and he says that everything has to be examined and that the neighbors have to be questioned. They all come to me and say, "But I can't do anything about it." I can only tell them that they shouldn't pay attention to this, otherwise they will end up like me. A woman who is living in one of the apartments is suffering like me.

A : Do you go on holiday in the winter?

P : My husband was invited to Poland, but I am afraid to drive there. On Saturday was the last day. He didn't force me, but I think he does so much for my family and I want to go with him but I'm afraid, I can't enter the airplane.

A : How long do you stay in Poland?

P : 10 days.

A : Only 10 days?

P : I have been there three times already, but it was not so good. I was also ill there.

A : Why?

P : I had something on my foot, I couldn't walk. The doctor who treated me there prescribed six weeks of rest. I didn't dare return to Belgium. They carried me 14 days, to the table, to the toilet and so on. I had to go to the airplane in a wheelchair, and at home they diagnosed rheumatism instead of phlebitis.

A : I will give you a tablet in a tube to take home, and whenever something happens which affects you, take it. You don't have to doubt. The last two times you saw that it really gave you strength and power. Don't worry, stay in Poland as long as possible.

Where else do you go?

P : At the moment nowhere, but maybe we will go to Spain afterwards.

A : Yes, I would advise you to do it.

This was a clear Ignatia case with a very big aggravation and then an amelioration. From July 1986 until December 1986 she reacted well every time to Ignatia. The vertigo never came back, until a colleague gave her Natrummuriaticum. Afterwards the vertigo and the anxieties came back, everything was worse. I repeated Ignatia with a clear amelioration.

All together she received Ignatia 15 times within 3 1/2 years and I ask you:

They say you have to wait after a remedy. I gave her the remedy and I waited. She had an aggravation and then an amelioration of her symptoms and then she came back in the same mortification situation. Then certain symptoms appeared again, not as bad as the vertigo, the unconsciousness and the diarrhea at the beginning, but again new symptoms. I repeated Ignatia and it was better. What does this all mean?

Audience: That mortification antidotes?

A : Mortification is a kind of antidote, that's right. But it also means that it depends on the situation whether the symptoms come back or not. And at that moment you must repeat the remedy.

Remark: But she can only cure if the situation changes.

A : To be cured totally, yes, but her mother is still alive. Once she dies there won't be any problems, but what shall we do in the meantime? You are the doctor and you must help this woman.

There are patients to whom you give the remedy once and they feel good for four, five years and there are other patients where you have to repeat the remedy often depending upon external circumstances. Or you might be of the opinion that you should wait, but the patient continues suffering and then I ask, why?

Maybe now you understand how difficult it is and why Vithoulkas said that the husband syndrome is a blockage. If a woman has to live with a man it is unbearable to live with, how can you cure this woman?

Remark: You have to treat the man as well.

A : Yes. You can treat the woman and the man, it's possible, and maybe they will separate. In these cases you start doubting and that's what happened to this doctor who gave her Natrummuriaticum. He thought that you could not cure everything with one remedy, and therefore he changed the remedy and gave Natrummuriaticum, but it was not right and she relapsed.

Do you understand now why I say that you can repeat a remedy without any harm when it is the right remedy and if the symptoms come back? In such a situation it is always good, as you can see here in this case. In other cases one dose is sufficient for 4, 5 or 6 years, depending on the situation.

Homeopathy cannot do everything. Be aware of that! The circumstances in which people live can be an antidote for the remedy.

Question: Which potency did you give?

A : M or 10M. I started with an M potency and later I gave her 10M. What do you think of this case? (Question for a participant)

Answer: I would wait, and when I see that the situation is stable I would take the case again and then decide what is necessary, but only if the situation and the symptoms are stable.

A : When she has been suffering from a headache for 10 or 14 days you would still wait?

Audience: I would take into account how she develops emotionally. Emotionally she was feeling better.

A : Yes, the depth of her problem is better so that the symptoms which were very prominent at the beginning, the unconsciousness, the diarrhea and so on have disappeared. Now she relapses, but the symptoms are less strong. Now she still has a headache, and when I give her the remedy the headache disappears until there is a new conflict with her mother. Then she becomes hoarse and gets a headache. The hoarseness disappears after two, three days by itself, but the headache remains. What do we have to do?

Remark: In such cases the repetition of the remedy might be a palliative measure.

A : But in this case? The unconsciousness and the involuntary stool, very deep symptoms have disappeared and emotionally she is better. Palliative means to suppress the symptoms with the wrong remedy and this was certainly not the case here.

When her situation changes, for example, when she goes on holiday she might be cured without any remedy. But if the situation in which she lives doesn't change, what should we do? I must help her, so I must give her the remedy. That's simple, isn't it?

Such cases occur very often in daily practice. These are patients who react well first, but relapse constantly. Then you start doubting the remedy, you give another one and another one, and yet the case is spoiled.

Remark: I think the problem is that she loses energy and therefore she develops these symptoms. What you have to do is to give her back the energy with Ignatia and this is not palliative.

A : No, it has nothing to do with palliation. Palliation means that you give a remedy, the symptoms disappear, but the remedy doesn't touch the bottom.This is a suppression. Like I gave Conium for a breast tumor. After Conium the breast tumor disappeared, then she developed rheumatic pains which improved on Phosphorus, and then the breast tumor appeared again. On the third remedy, Carbo animalis, both symptoms disappeared. The Conium was palliative, the way I understand palliative.

Question: You gave 10M, did you have to give 50M?

A : Personally I don't think there is a big difference between 10M and 50M. There might be, but I don't like to discuss the problem of potencies. You see, sometimes you give a C30 with a wonderful reaction, and then a 200 and nothing happens. Or you give a M with a wonderful reaction and the next time nothing happens. This is individual.

Question: Shouldn't she learn how to solve her problem?

A : You know the origin of her problem is mortification.She has been accused wrongly by her mother, and she is sensitive to this mortification. She starts doubting herself, whether she did do something wrong and she reproaches herself. That's Ignatia.

She relapses every time her mother reproaches her; she is very sensitive to these influences.

It's the same when I hit the hammer on my nail. When I take Hypericum the first time the pain disappears immediately, but when I hit my nail again the next day it hurts again and I need Hypericum again.

Remark: But the question is why do you always hit your finger?

A : Because I'm not used to handling a hammer, but nevertheless I have to put a nail in the wall.

Audience : What remedy do you think her mother will need?

A : I don't know exactly, but it could be Lachesis. Lachesis women are very strong and I have seen some here in Hechtel who have survived three men. The first husband died, the second, and also the third.

Remark: I think if this woman would learn how to deal with her situation she wouldn't need so much Ignatia and I think she could learn how to deal with her difficult mother.

A : I think we must be humble. If somebody is sensitive to cold air how can he learn not to be sensitive to cold air?

Remark: That's something different.

A : No. Here I refer only to external influences, whether they are emotional or physical. We are susceptible to certain external influences, they might be emotional, psychological or physical. We can't change anything about this susceptibility.

Remark: Of course you have to give Ignatia, but at the same time you should try to help her to see things differently, maybe you could send her to a psychotherapist. By only repeating the remedy 15 times you haven't changed anything at all, I mean, you haven't done anything for her development.

A : Everybody tries to do what he can and if somebody tries to do something again and again, which actually he can't, he loses more energy. If I can't lift 50 kg, but keep trying again and again, I become weaker the more I try. Only the homeopathic remedy can give you the energy, I'm sure of that.

For example, Bufo has erections, and he MUST masturbate, he MUST! - "But you don't try not to do it!" "Yes, I try, but I cannot." You give Bufo and then: "Strange, but I don't have the tendency to masturbate." You can try to teach him all kinds of techniques, but only the homeopathic remedy will indeed change something. I'm sure of that.

If you know the remedy for a patient and you can explain to him how he functions psychologically and he understands maybe you can change his behavior.

CASE6

Depression, rectal polyps

Ignatiaamara

Case

Woman, 65 years old

This woman has reacted very well to Ignatia and now she has a slight relapse because of circumstances. She has polyps in the rectum and she is very depressed.

Look at the rubric on page 631:

RECTUM, Polypi: ... nit- ac, ...Phos ...

You see Phosphorus is a capital remedy and for me Nitricumacidum is also a capital remedy. Nitricumacidum is a very important remedy in chronic ear diseases, in running ears or when there is a cholesteatoma.

You find the rubric for cholesteatoma under ear. Sometimes it is also important to look at the clinical rubrics. You find this rubric on page 319:

EAR, Tumor, steatoma: Calc, nit-ac

Calcarea has polyps in the rectum as well as cholesteatomas, like Nitricumacidum. These are the only two remedies. Nitricumacidum has freckles like Phosphorus. It is a very interesting remedy in cancer, in rectal problems, tumors of the rectum, cancer of the tongue and so on.

All right. This patient came with depression and rectal polyps.

A : You have been here a few times and the remedy worked very well, but now you have come back. Tell me.

P : I don't know why. But with the children .... I enjoyed my work, but now it is over.

A : It is over. Has something happened in the meantime?

P : I had to have surgery for the polyps, but they were gone.

A : The polyps were gone.

P : Yes, is this possible?

A : They might disappear with a homeopathic remedy.

P : Yes? So the polyps were gone. I had to have surgery for the polyps, but they were already gone.

So this was her story. When she came the first time she had polyps in the rectum; she received the remedy twice and when she went to the hospital they saw that the polyps were gone.

Once again we see that we can't predict what the remedy precisely does. This remedy is not in the rubric "rectum, polyps", and yet they disappeared.

A : After the last remedy you were doing well, weren't you?

P : Yes, very well, even very, very well!

A : At the time you came here - and now this feeling has come back - you said, "I can't anymore."

P : Yes, it is still better than the time I was here last.

A : At that time you took LIVAL, CROTIADON and TEMESTA.

P : Yes.

A : You don't need those drugs at the moment?

P : I still take TEMESTA in the evening.

A : You can't do without it?

P : No, I can't.

A : You can't sleep then?

P : No.

A : The reason for your problem is ...

P : ... the children.

A : You mean the divorce and so now you have to take care of the grandchildren.

P : Yes, and I can't do it anymore. I have done it for a long time, but I can't do it anymore. They don't want me to do it anymore. When I was here the last time, I could have killed myself.

When she came the first time she said, "I could kill myself." This is which rubric?

You find this rubric on page 85:

MIND, Suicidal thoughts: ... Aur ... ign ... Nat-s ... Psor, puls, rhus-t ...

There is not only Aurum, Natrumsulphuricum and Psorinum -Psorinum because of despair from itching - but also Rhustoxicodendron, Pulsatilla and Ignatia.

P : This is gone. Notwithstanding the exertion I don't feel like doing anything ... I felt well, but now I have it again.

A : And what do you feel physically?

P : I feel something in my stomach and then in my head.

A : What do you feel in your stomach?

P : I always have to belch and my abdomen is distended and swollen. It is just the exertion.

A : Does it radiate or does it stay only in your stomach?

P : It stays in my stomach. I have to belch air, and then it is better, but it doesn't last a long time.

A : What about your throat?

P : It feels like a sore throat.

A : What do you feel exactly?

P : The throat feels dry and there is a gnawing pain. There is something.

A : How does this feel?

P : I don't know. I don't feel well here, and it extends to my throat.

A : And you have to sigh very often.

P : Yes, I often do, but I can't weep.

A : In the past you were a very strong woman, weren't you?

P : Yes, I always did my job and did needlework and knitting ... and the children were always with me. Very slowly it became worse and worse so that I thought, "If this goes on, soon I won't be able to do anything at all." And this has become true, I can't do anything at all.

A : Hm.

P : I went to the psychiatrist.

A : You went to a psychiatrist?

P : Yes, but he didn't help me at all. That was before I came here.

A : Hm. And before you wept because of the slightest thing?

P : Yes, for trivial things.

A : And now you can't weep anymore?

P : Now I can't weep anymore, and before I wept because of the slightest thing.

A : And this is since ...

P : .... since I have been overworked.

She cannot weep, she doesn't show her grief. What rubric?

Audience: Sadness.

Audience: Grief.

A : Yes, silent grief. You find this rubric on page 51:

MIND, Grief, silent: Ign, Nat-m, puls

Pulsatilla is also in this rubric. Don't forget that Pulsatilla does not always like company. If you look at the rubric "aversion, company, during heat", Pulsatilla is there.

Remark: There is also a rubric, "sadness, cannot weep" (on page 78) and Ignatia is an addition.

A : Do you have to vomit at times?

P : No, not anymore.

A : Do you feel sometimes like going away from here?

P : Yes, I feel like that, but I don't know where to go. I also don't like to live alone in such a little house.

A : Are you alone?

P : Yes.

A : Your husband died?

P : Yes, six years ago. After his death I felt rather well, I was always busy, was punctual ... Then one of the children wanted to sell my house and I prevented it. I had to pay a lot for that. From then on, gradually it went downhill. Then there was also this divorce ...

A : You couldn't bear that your house had to be sold.

P : Yes, exactly.

A : It is bad.

P : I had only half of it sold.

A : And you could keep your half?

P : Yes, surely.

A : You worked your whole life and then ...

P : Both of us had to work for this little house, always .... And then suddenly, shortly before Christmas the process-server came by without my knowing.

I would like you to add Ignatia in the rubric "desire to travel".It is a typical expression of these people that they want to go away, away from the circumstances in which they live.That's the reason they want to travel. They want to go away and forget everything, the whole mess.

There are a few additions for "desire to travel", but I think Ignatia and Carcinosinum are the most important.

P : The process-server stood before the door and he said, "I've come to sell your house." The creditors of my daughter requested paternal inheritance.

A : And they could?

P : Yes. My husband died in 1979 and at that time it was still possible. If he would have lived 2 months longer it would have been impossible, but at that time it was still possible, because the law of 1979 was in force. That's how it started. Then my daughter left her husband; she was married to an alcoholic and so it went on and on.

A : You were here the last time on December 17. Up to what time did you feel well afterwards?

P : I would say until May. Then the children came back, but they came at different times, so that they didn't have to face each other.

A : Because they quarrel with each other?

P : Yes, because one of my children was not allowed to be the godmother/godfather of the child of one of my other children.

A : And then it was the same as before.

P : Yes, and I couldn't do anything about that at all.

A : In this case we can give you some energy, some power.

P : Yes.

A : At that time you noticed that the remedy cheered you up.

P : Yes, a lot.

A : In the past you were very proud.

P : I kept everything in order, my housework, the books. I didn't like anything lying around.

In the past everything had to be very clean and for her it was very important what people said about her house. This is which constitution?

Audience: Calcarea.

A : Yes, surely she needed Calcarea in the past, but she was not ill, so she didn't receive it.

I remember another case of a female colleague who had a female patient who was Calcarea constitutionally and suddenly she had a grief. I think her friend left her. Afterwards she had a heart attack. She received Ignatia and everything went away. Calcarea - Ignatia.An Ignatia state might occur with every remedy, and especially in Calcarea constitutions you see it more often.

P : I had some assistance, I must tell you.

A : Hm. But your joy of living is a little bit better.

P : Yes, yes, it is better than before.

A : At that time you were doing really badly. At that time you even had suicidal thoughts.

P : Yes.

A : You don't have them at the moment?

P : No, I don't think of it anymore.

A : Now you want to live.

P : Yes, I don't want to kill myself anymore, but at that time I did. At that time I thought, "I wish I would have an accident!" So that I could die in a proper way.

A : It should be in a proper way.

P : Yes, yes. I didn't have the power to do it to myself. I wanted to die in a proper way.

A : So that the people couldn't say, She killed herself.

P : Yes, exactly.

You see, again the honor. She wanted to die in a proper way.

A : But also because of your own pride.

P : Yes, yes.

A : You wouldn't tolerate it if the other people would say ...

P : Oh no, "she killed herself", not at all! But I wanted to pass away.

A : You wanted to pass away?

P : Yes.

A : For example, if you would have a vacation home somewhere, you would go there, wouldn't you?

P : You mean on holiday, for 14 days or so?

P : Yes.

A : Yes, I would.

A : To be away from all the misery.

P : Yes, to be away from all this misery. For example, last week I was invited to a pub, and we went out together, but who was there? My children. Three here and three there. I turned immediately and went back home.

She went to a family meeting and she sees three of her children sitting here and the other three sitting over there. This means that her children were separated. When she saw this she turned back home immediately. This is a grief.

P : I couldn't face it.

A : That your children are quarreling, you don't tolerate this.

P : Yes, I think this is very bad, but you can't change anything about it. The divorce is also still a big problem.

A : Is it still running on?

P : Yes. My daughter still has the children, but we don't know yet whether she can keep the children.

A : Normally, the children stay with their mother. Unless ...

P : She hasn't done anything bad, but she has met another man and this might be a reason she cannot keep the children. I don't know.

A : I will give you three tablets to take home.

CASE7

Ignatiaamara

Case

Woman, 30 years old

June 17, 1988

A : You have hemorrhoids. When did they start?

P : The day before yesterday. They started suddenly in the late afternoon, about 6:00 o'clock.

A : And you didn't eat anything in particular or drink too much beer?

P : No. There was nothing in particular.

A : Has anything extraordinary happened?

P : No, actually not. Maybe it has something to do with the tablet you gave me. All last week I suffered from dizziness, from Monday until Friday, and on Friday evening it became a little bit better. The whole week I felt really dizzy, and I was also tired. But it has improved since Friday evening.

A : Otherwise you haven't had any problems?

That remedy was Sac lac. It was on June 17, 1988. In the beginning of April she received Alumina, at the end of April and in May, Sac lac. After Sac lac she got this vertigo.

A : How did you feel?

P : I can't say well, it was just like this.

A : And how were you doing psychologically?

P : It is difficult to explain. There are moments when I can't get up, can't work, can't struggle to my feet. Sometimes I still have it. It is not as bad as in the beginning of the treatment, but I still have it.

A : It started on Thursday and today it is Friday, so yesterday.

P : No, it started the day before yesterday, and I called you yesterday.

A : So it started on Wednesday. What happened on Tuesday?

P : Nothing in particular.

A : You didn't quarrel with anybody?

P : No.

A : Not on Monday?

P : No.

A : Not on Wednesday morning or forenoon?

P : On Wednesday I visited a former colleague. I saw her the last time in September. I thought, "Let's visit her," because she also called me and invited me. I thought, maybe it would be good to see her again. I liked her very much. When I came home I was very sad because I won't see her every day. She was like a mother to me.She is about 50 years old and I visit her very often. I thought, "If I could go to work again, I would see her every day." On Wednesday, in the late afternoon the hemorrhoids started.

A : They don't occur just like that. There must be a reason for it.

P : Do you think this is the reason?

A : I think that it is an emotional reason. Do you have other complaints?

P : No. Except a burning feeling while urinating and a stitching pain in the region of the groin, on the right side.

A : Did it appear at the same time?

P : Yes, it appeared at the same time.

A : Where do you have this burning?

P : At the opening of the urethra.

All the symptoms have to indicate the same remedy. Not only the hemorrhoids, but also the kind of cystitis which she has now must indicate the same remedy.

A : This fits. What else do you have besides the burning feeling?

P : Stitching in the right groin.

A : When do you have this complaint?

P : It appears at the same time. First I have a stitch in my rectum, and it extends to the groin.

A : It doesn't have anything to do with the stool?

P : No.

A : This stitching pain in your rectum does it improve when you are sitting?

P : Yes.

A : When you get up you have more problems?

P : Yes.

A : And you also feel this stitch in the groin?

P : Yes.

This is a symptom which is peculiar for this remedy.

A : Is the stitching pain constant?

P : No, it is short. It is not so bad.

A : Does it come suddenly?

P : Yes, it comes suddenly.

A : And it goes away immediately?

P : Yes.

A : You don't have to push on it or do anything like that?

P : No.

A : Did you sleep well last night?

P : Yes.

A : The night before also?

P : I slept a little bit less.

A : Why?

P : I don't know.

A : Are you thirsty or not?

P : I'm very thirsty. The dryness in my throat has increased. I have the feeling that everything became worse, especially the vertigo. It was gone before, the last week it was very strong again and this week I still have it slightly. The sore throat which was completely cured appears again and also the dryness.

A : Has the pain in the throat come back?

P : There is something in my throat, and there is also the dryness.

A : What exactly do you feel in your throat?

P : It is pinching here, very deeply.

A : Is this the same feeling you had before? Before you said that you had had a sore throat for a few months and there was also dryness.

P : Yes. It has come back. It is not as bad as at that time, but it has come back.

A : Is it exactly the same as before or is it another feeling?

P : It is exactly the same.

A : Do you still have the idea that everything is unreal?

P : That had completely gone.

A : Tell me exactly what you feel in your throat because it is very important.

P : Deep down in my throat I have a pinching feeling as if somebody is pressing upon it.

A : Is this a feeling as if there is something there?

P : Yes.

A : What? How does it feel?

P : As if something is there that shouldn't be. Sometimes it is burning and when I drink a lot it is gone. Maybe it is because of the dryness? I don't know.

A : The feeling as if something is in your way, is this a feeling as if there is a lump which you would like to take out?

P : Yes.

A : When do I see you again?

P : At the beginning of August I have an appointment.

A : That's a good month. What about your food preferences? What do you like to eat at the moment?

P : I don't have so much appetite. I'm alone the whole day, and I eat bread with something I have at home. I don't have a particular appetite for anything. I eat only to satisfy my hunger.

A : And what do you eat then?

P : Bread with pepper salami or cheese.

A : You also like cheese. And you don't eat anything in between?

P : No.

A : Really nothing?

P : I drink something in between.

A : What about fruit?

P : I don't eat it.

A : Do you have an aversion to fruit?

P : No. I just don't like to eat it.

A : Do you weep easily?

P : Yes. My son has been away with his class for one week and I have suffered a lot from that.

In Belgium the children go on holiday with their class during the school year. So her son went on holiday and that's the reason.

A : Your son is nine years old.

P : Yes, but I miss him. Maybe that's the reason for my problems.

A : But there are two reasons. Your son went on holiday with his class and you visited a colleague of yours.

P : Yes. On Monday I went with my sister, because I thought I would be gone for the whole forenoon. I put my son on the bus and when I came home at noon I felt better. I was thinking, "He arrived well." Then by coincidence my friend called and asked, "How are you doing, I haven't heard anything from you. " I said, "I don't feel 100%." She doesn't know me this way and said, "Why don't you come and let's have a little chat." I didn't need to work on Wednesday and so I said, "All right. My son is on holiday, I'll visit you on Wednesday." And so I did.

A : That's why I asked you whether you weep easily.

P : Yes, because I had to restrain myself. I stood there alone, a mother who was emotionally deeply affected. The other mothers were happy, but I couldn't say a word. I was wondering what was wrong with me.

A : You thought that the other mothers were not involved emotionally.

P : Yes, exactly, I noticed it. One woman looked at me because I couldn't say a word and our Tom also noticed it. He's strongly attached to me and he cried in the morning. I consoled him and said, "You don't have to cry on the bus, because you know that you don't like it when there are so many people." He behaved bravely and went into the bus and I turned back to the car.

A : Did you cry afterwards?

P : No, I couldn't. It got stuck.

A : You couldn't weep?

P : No, it really got stuck. In the morning it was very difficult for me. I thought, "When I let myself go like this and he has to leave me this way, it's not good." Gradually, it got better. I worked at my sister's house and didn't say much, but when I came home it was a little bit better. I wrote a letter right away.

A : And the night before yesterday you didn't sleep well?

P : No.

A : What were you thinking of?

P : Actually nothing. I just lay awake. I wasn't thinking of anything in particular and I didn't wake up from anything in particular.

A : This is interesting. Do you have anything else to say about it? Is that all?

P : Yes.

A : All right. Be careful the way you react. I think everything will be gone tomorrow.

What is the remedy?

Ignatia. And why?

Audience: ... (not understandable)

A : Yes, but which symptom under rectum?

Look on page 624:

RECTUM, Pain, sitting, amel: Ars, ign, lach

The reason is grief, she has a lump sensation in her throat, she has desire for cheese, Ignatia is there. The aversion to fruit is not so strong. The burning pain while urinating is also Ignatia. Don't forget Ignatia in serious bladder inflammations with severe pain. Try to find the reason for every bladder inflammation, why it occurs.

All right, now the feedback.

FEEDBACK (June 29, 1988)

A : You received the remedy on June 3. Tell me how quickly it disappeared and what happened?

P : It was not on June 3.

A : No, it was on June 17, on Friday.

P : On Sunday the little ball had diminished by 50% and the pain was gone. I don't have pain anymore, but the hemorrhoids haven't disappeared completely yet.

A : You don't have problems anymore?

P : No, I don't feel anything.

A : It was already better the next day?

P : Yes, the next day the pain was gone.

A : Have you had this before?

P : Not this bad.

A : When you had this in the past was the pain also gone within one day?

P : No, surely not. It lasted longer. I had pain for three, four weeks in the past. At that time I used ointment.

A : And what about this lump feeling?

P : It is better, but not gone yet, and also the dryness is better.

A : And psychologically you feel well?

P : I feel better.

A : Are you going on holiday?

P : Yes.

A : All right, that's all I have to know.

The last symptom I have to tell you about Ignatia is the excoriation around the vagina and the mouth. This is not in the Repertory. It is an addition from Boericke. In such cases I have prescribed Natrummuriaticum wrongly. Also Ignatia has the redness, excoriation around the mouth, under the nose and around the vagina. Add Ignatia in the corresponding rubrics, it is important.

Also in children think of Ignatia when they get convulsions in sleep after punishment and when they get convulsions in the first period of dentition. These convulsions go along with unconsciousness, also epileptic attacks with foaming at the mouth, saliva and sighing after convulsions. In convulsions think also of Ignatia; it is not always Opium.

Clarke says it is better to give Ignatia in the morning, just as it is better to give Nux vomica in the evening.

These rubrics are very important. She also had headaches, so we took the remedy "headache from grief"; and she is very closed.

In the foreground there is grief and the consequences of it.

What remedy did I give her?

Audience: Ignatia.

A : Yes, Ignatia has pain in small spots, headache from grief, a lump, sensation of constriction in the throat, and so on.

People like her husband, and also Aurum people, who don't do anything else but work create Ignatia states in other people. They work, work, work and don't pay attention to their wife, and the result is: Ignatia.

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She has to be busy all the time. Which remedy is very important here? Ignatia. Another symptom for Ignatia is the sighing

A : Yes, a sensation of constriction in the chest, a lump sensation. That's right, but I want a smaller rubric.

What exactly happened?

In the family everything was all right and suddenly she finds out that her daughter left her husband. These are ailments from what?

From bad news. You find this rubric on page 9:

MIND, Bad news, ailments from

For her it is a fright; ailments from fright.

Then you see her respiration and the emaciation. In the rubric "emaciation from grief" you don't find Ignatia, but it must be added here.

I gave her a high potency and now we will see the reaction.

She couldn't urinate before. It was not urine retention, but the kidneys weren't functioning, they didn't produce urine anymore.

Can you understand now that Ignatia, for example, also can block the liver? That Ignatia can produce icterus? If you look in the Repertory under "Skin, discoloration, yellow" you will find Ignatia.

Ignatia can really paralyze, it is the remedy for paralysis from grief. Paralysis in the face, any organ can be paralyzed in Ignatia states, the kidneys can stop producing urine or the bladder can be paralyzed.

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